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field apart, two planes just miss crashing in mid-air over new york city. plus, valedictorian missing. an american high school kid disappears hiking in ecuador. and -- >> i was like, whoa. you see this guy start walking in front of the car. you can hear the door locks. >> car theft goes hi-tech. a mystery box can unlock your car in 20 seconds. and positioning for a life-saving catch. yep. that was a baby. tragedy averted, yet again. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning, thank you so much for being with me, i'm carol costello. we start this morning with that close call in the skies over new york city. investigators are trying to figure out how a delta flight coming in for a landing at jfk

nearly collided in midair with another plane leaving laguardia. renee marsh is live in washington. what happened? >> well, carol, the scary situation here. we're talking about perhaps one of the busier air spaces in the country. and, so, we know that this was this near miss that actually happened here. what we're trying to find out is how this happened. the faa telling us that their investigation is just starting. but here's what we know so far. the incident happened here at new york's jfk airport. a shuttle america e170 was taking off just as a delta 747 was preparing to land. that 747 then peeled out of its landing in a standard procedure called a missed approach. the two planes then came way too close. the faa will not confirm just how close. in a statement it said the two aircraft were turning away from each other at the point where

they lost the required separation. both aircraft landed safely. it is the latest in the string of near misses across the nation's airports in the past few years. last year in washington, d.c., at reagan national airport, three planes barely avoided slamming into one another after a control tower miscommunication. and a frightening near multiple collision in denver, just before last thanksgiving. >> traffic alert. 1:00. less than two miles at same altitude. >> reporter: a passenger plane caught on radar staring directly into the line of several aircrafts. in 2010, a pilot at boston logan airport takes a wrong turn. right into the path of another aircraft. an air traffic controller frantically works to avoid a disaster. >> hold, hold. >> reporter: thankfully the pilot hears him just in time. crisis averted.

and, carol, no specifics from the faa at least not right now on how close these two planes came to each other. but they say the standard separation of aircrafts, in situations like these, are about three miles. so, at the very least we know these two planes were less than three miles apart at some point. carol? >> that's very scary. renee marsh reporting live from washington. new england patriots used to defending offenders on the field. from the air and all the ground reporters swarmed seeking comment on a murder case that is casting a large shadow around him. here's more from our susan candiotti. >> reporter: the embattled patriots' tight end spent much of thursday away from home. first, he drove to gillette stadium as a news camera hovered overhead tracking his white suv. hernandez hustled into the facility. next he stopped for gas where he

was bombarded with questions from reporters. >> can you tell us anything you want to say? what happened on monday night? can you just tell us what happened on monday night. >> reporter: the family a of lloyd also wants to know what happened monday night. they wonder why lloyd, a friend of hernandez, was shot dead. his body discovered a half mile from hernandez's home. police are not calling hernandez a suspect in the murder, but lloyd's family want to know why police are searching hernandez's home. what do you make of the questions he is being asked and what would you like to know? >> i would like to know why. he was a very great guy. what could he possibly have done to anger anybody to do that. that's all i can really say. >> do you think he might have had something to do with it? >> i don't want to comment on that. >> she explained her relationship saying her brother's girlfriend and hernandez's fiancee are sisters.

she confirms that on friday both men were at a nightclub together. as far as you know, ever have any angry words between them? >> not that i know of. >> back at the crime scene, investigators using metal detectors pokes through piles of dirt looking for evidence in lloyd's murder. hernandez's lawyer won't comment on the investigation. wbz reports he met with his client in downtown boston thursday. susan candiotti outside hernandez's home in north adelborough, massachusetts. any word if charges are going to be filed against hernandez? >> well, hi, carol. there are certainly a lot of reports about that. this morning unconfirmed rorl es to cnn that something might be in the works. we're following that. everyone is standing by to see what happens next. so far the only action outside the house and we don't believe aaron hernandez is anywhere close to the home.

we did see a couple women leave here early this morning. we're told that among other people his mother lives at the home here. so, we've seen a lot of landscapers at work. noisy morning, but we haven't heard much from here. >> all right, susan candiotti reporting live this morning. let's take a look at your money this morning. markets are poised for a rebound, at least we hope so after that massive selloff on wednesday and thursday. the dow down more than 500 points. cnn business anchor christine romans is following this in new york. so, futures seem to be looking up. >> they are looking up, carol. up about 59 points right now for the dow. i'm pleased that you're not seeing a third day of sort of intense selling, but you did have two days where total the dow fell 550 points. that is a big two-day move to be clawing back from. we'll see if futures can hold and deteriorated. they are higher, still, but haven't been robust, i would say, in terms of people trying to get in and buy stocks. we'll watch and see what happens

in 23 minutes when the market opens. one thing to remember here is that you've got the stock market has been up a lot this year. the s&p, the dow, the nasdaq, all of them up double digits. if you look at your 401(k), carol, it's going it be positive. even after these two bad days and there's this feeling that people are starting to take money off the table and had a very good year and they're concerned what the fed is going to do when they stop supporting the economy probably some time into next year. you'll see this gut check where people are taking money off the table. >> christine romans reporting live from new york city, thank you. six women, six women, just women would decide the fate of george zimmerman and remember race could be a key factor to this case. five of thez women jurors are white. one is described as hispanic or black. opening statements now set for monday. also, today the judge will rule on a controversial voice analysis of the screams heard on this 911 call.

>> does he loohurt to you? >> i can't see him. i don't want to go out there. i don't know what's going on. >> do you think he's yelling help? >> yes. >> all right. what is your -- >> all right, you heard the screams in the background. the prosecution wants to show it was trayvon martin's voice. if so, that could hurt zimmerman's self-defense claim in shooting zimmerma eme eme em was unarm aed. also new information this morning in the sudden death of james gandolfini. hotel staff in italy had to break down the door to get to the collapsed actor and in just the last few minutes we've learned autopsy results confirm gandolfini did, indeed, die of a heart attack. nischelle turner joins us live now. good morning, nischelle. >> good morning, carol. the hotel staff in italy, we're being told, had to break the

door down in the bathroom to get james gandolfini out. his son called for help late wednesday night when he did not hear his father and he called hotel staff. in the last few minutes we also learned, like you said, the autopsy results confirmed that gandolfini died of a heart attack. carol, the family of james gandolfini is having a press conference in italy. once we get a chance to hear what they're saying, we'll bring that information to you. >> we showed an empty podium in rome. they're expected to come out soon. just so sad the way this happened, especially from gandolfini's son perspective. his dad was in the bathroom for a long time. his son is 13 years old. he is wondering, why isn't dad coming out of the bathroom and then he called emergency workers? >> yes, well, no, he did not call emergency workers. he called the hotel staff. but that's a good point. you have to understand, this is a 13-year-old boy on vacation

with his father and his family. and his dad's in the bathroom and he has been there for a long time and he's knocking on the door and he's not getting an answer. he panics and he doesn't know what's going on and he had to call the hotel staff and the hotel staff came in and knocked the door down and that's when the emergency services were called and they took him by ambulance where the hospital officials told us he did arrive dead on arrival. the next step, carol, of course, making final arrangements for him. probably bringing his body back here and, according to italian law, the family does have to request a death certificate and the u.s. embassy has to issue that death certificate before his body can be released. but that will be taken care of in a matter of a day. >> nischelle turner reporting live for us this morning. you have to take a look at this. this is the catch of a lifetime. these guys look like they're tracking -- that was a toddler. that was a toddler falling five stories into their waiting arms.

this went down in china. those men now heroes were delivery men who happened to be on break when that little girl really, really needed them. still ahead in "newsroom" a new deal could help get immigration reform through the senate. but, a lot of frustration and senator marco rubio knows all about that. why the tea party is now turning on their hero, next. ♪

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king james crowned, again. his royal subjects rejoice. miami heat fans took to the streets to celebrate the second nba title with lebron james getting his second straight mvp. the heat beat the san antonio spurs. i guess lebron chose to wear that headband and it worked out for him. >> absolutely. and, really, just a crazy, crazy past few hours here. and it's really just been what made the past couple days so special. that these are two elite teams with a half a dozen hall of fame players on the floor staging

what a lot of people feel is one of the best nba finals in history. because of the toughness and grit and heart they displayed, it turned into something very special. they fought to the very end. to the very last possible minute of the very last possible game of the season. if sometimes sports is about fantastic feats of athleticism, this was about unrelenting determination. two past champions bringing out the best in each other, but only one was left standing. >> saying hard work pays off is a true testament. when i was sitting up here last year said it was the toughest thing i ever done. this year, i would have told last year, he's absolutely wrong. this was the toughest championship right here. >> obviously, we are really disappointed. i had a great opportunity in game six and tonight, you know, we did a great fight, but just

couldn't get over the hump. that's life, sports. >> i thought they gave everything. we have a bunch of guys who aren't going to give innkeep playing with each other, for each other and really feel the responsibility to each other. so, you know, i expect nothing less and that's what i got. >> the san antonio spurs had everything right to think they'd won this series three days ago in a potentially clinching game six they were up by five points with less than 30 seconds to go. the miami heat fought and fought some more. pushing the finals to a thrilling seventh game and ultimately a second straight title. afterward, in a champagne-soaked locker room, players took extra time to saver the moment. >> just want to soak it in. we go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. seem like they go past us. i just want to thak that moment,

soak it in. holler at my home boy larry right here and just have my own moment. >> larry, of course, would be the larry o'brien trophy. he and dwyane wade apparently on a first-name basis after dwayne has won three rings. you remember, carol, when lebron james came down to miami to join wade. and then team president pat riley organized a pep rally and he started counting the championships they were going to win not one, not two, not three, not four. seen as such intense iragainst a and public opinion rebounded for lebron. hard to judge this big experiment of pat riley's of anything but a huge success. >> winning solves everything, doesn't it? >> absolutely. >> rachel nichols, thanks so much. 18 minutes past the hour, time to check our top stories. an oklahoma high school

valedictorian is missing in ecuador. august riegger was on a mountain hike with his family and they split up and he simply disappeared. the teen's father says it's baffling since there were only two trails on their hike and the area isn't dangerous. first they thought the teenager doubled back and headed towards the hotel. but when they returned to the hotel the boy was no where to be found. investigators say they have no leads. a state of emergency has been declared in calgary where as many as 1100,000 people may have to evacuate. several roads and bridges have been wiped out by torrential rain and mudslides and portions of the transcanada highway have been closed. passengers can soon be free to use electronic gadgets while onboard an airplane. like when the flight is in the air and everything. "the wall street journal" says they will relax a ban during takeoffs and landings. music players and ereaders would be allowed and cell phones would still be banned. a decision could come before the

end of the year. all right, we just got some interesting tape into cnn. we have the air a traffic control tapes from that near miss over jfk. where two passenger jets came, what? within three miles of one another in mid-air. renee marsh is in washington with those tapes. show us, tell us. >> that's right, carol. we'll start by saying that this happened in a very busy air space. and we do have some of that audio. again, this is between one of the planes and the control tower. take a listen in. >> you turning? >> yes, sir. we're almost at 040 now. >> 12:00, 1,600 feet. >> okay, we have him on the fish finder here. >> okay. he's eastbound at 1,800 feet. >> all right, again, carol,

that's just a portion of the audio between the plane and the control tower here. again, just to recap for you. the situation that we had had here on june 13th, according to the faa, there was a plane that was supposed to be landing at jfk airport. however, for whatever reason, we don't know why at this point, the pilot did not land the plane. instead, the pilot kept on flying the plane towards the direction of laguardia airport. but at that time, there was a second plane taking off from laguardia and then these two planes came dangerously close together. we're calling it a near miss. the faa says they're now investigating. unclear at this very moment exactly how close these two planes came to each other, but we know the standard is about three miles apart. so, at the very least, we know they were less than three miles apart. carol? >> so, just in, you know, i'm

going to indwaj engage in a lit speculation. the pilot could have made a mistake, we just don't know. >> it could be several things. it could be that the pilot was having problems with the aircraft and didn't feel that he was able to land it. it could be that there was a plane on the runway. either waiting to take off or was just taxiing in and was slow to complete taxiing in. so, maybe the runway wasn't clear. there are several reasons as to why he may not or she may not have been able to land this plane. that is still under investigation. we're still waiting from the faa to know exactly how and why this happened. >> okay, renee, thanks so much. still ahead in "newsroom" keeping a close eye on the dow after two days of triple-digit losses. the opening bell minutes away. we're back in a minute.

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a border agent every 120,000 feet seven days a week and 700 miles of fencing along our border with mexico. it's all part of a bipartisan compromise to try to get a major

immigration reform bill passed in the senate. the hope is those changes will also persuade the republican-controlled house to take up the measure. the bill will stop green cards for illegal immigrants from being handed out until all those new border controls are in place. but, despite the compromise, senator marco rubio says he understands the frustration some republicans have with that immigration reform plan. he talked with cnn's chief congressional correspondent, dana bash. >> carol, few politicians have as much at stake with immigration reform than senator marco rubio. a cuban with presidential aspirations. one of those republicans who believe that giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship is critical to bring those fleeing from the gop back to the party. many disagree they only want to secure the border and say rubio and like-minded republicans want ama nesty. i asked rubio about that. someone like you with higher

ambition, this is important for somebody who is in a conservative, very red state voting for something like immigration reform hurts them, rather than helps them. how do you overcome that? >> i understand why conservatives are upset. they've seen all the promises in the past that haven't been delivered. nobody can become a legal, permanent resident of the united states unless these border measures past. all five of them. that's why we have to do it this way. otherwise it won't happen. i understand why people are frustrated. i do. we shouldn't do this for politics. i can tell you politically this is as much a negative as a positive. i understand it and respect. . by the other token, this is hurting america. >> the negative as much as the positive. it is a risk for you? >> there are people upset. there are people i agree with on every other issue. and primarily they're just distrustful that the government will do its part. that's why we have to guarantee it happens. no one who violated our immigration laws will become a legal, permanent resident unless

all five of these things. the entry/exit tracking system. >> in all candor, how much of your personal credibility and viability is on the line here? nobody talks about this without talking about marco rubio in the same breath. >> i have not analyzed it that way. if i wanted to do something political, the easiest thing to do not politically is not play and get involved in trying to solve it. i'm dealing with this because this is hurting our xunt badly. >> many fellow republicans are not buying that argument. in fact, positions there seem to be hardening against immigration reform with a path to citizenship rather than softening for it. house speaker john boehner compared it to obama care, which does not bode well for the next step, which would be passing it in the house and eventually making it to the president's desk. carol? >> all right, dana bash reporting this morning. we're expecting markets to open higher this morning. fingers crossed because the last two days were ugly.

the dow lost more than 200 points on wednesday. 353 points yesterday. and that has some investors feeling edgy. so, we want to talk about how the market will open in just a minute or so. and what that will mean for you and me. joining me to discuss cnn business anchor christine romans and senior economic writer for "wall street journal" editorial page, steven moore. welcome to both of you. >> hi, carol. >> christine, how are futures looking now? >> they're still higher. but i'll be interested to see how much enthusiasm there is for buying stocks here today. how the market is going to fare today is going to tell us how investers are feeling around the world about the direction of the stock market, especially in light of the fed. the fed maybe sometimes next year not pumping money into the system. you pointed out, 550 points over two days. ouch. that really, really hurts. you want to see some enthusiasm and a bounce back this morning. we had futures up maybe 50

points or so, 30 points. we'll see if we can hold on there. i want to show you other markets. gold was down 6%, oil was down 3% yesterday. interest rates rising. that's going to translate into your mortgage rates, car loans, auto loans, all that kind of stuff. this was just not a stock market move, carol. this was everything around the world was moving yesterday. watching right now, you know, look, you don't have all the components open quite yet. we'll watch closely. >> still, steven, stocks went down 500 points over the last two days and then on the third day, investors saying, good time to buy. and then the stock market will go back up. >> yeah, quite possibly. look, i'm still pretty bullish on the economy as christine knows. the thing that is really interesting about this, carol. the fed and ben bernanke did not announce the other day that they were taking the punch bowl away. they were saying, right, christine, they might take it away some time in the future and just that, so, you know, cause

so much nervousness on wall street that you saw this big, this big selloff. i don't expect the selloff to continue. i think this was just a little bit, a temper tantrum because they were -- >> a taper tantrum. >> a taper tantrum. >> absolutely. >> ben bernanke, so interesting, ben bernanke basically said we'll go on a diet some time next year and that's what got everybody so worried about a diet that hasn't started yet. just the fact that he was so clear about going on a diet is why every aen with is concerned. >> taper means the economy is improving. wall street is just kind of jittery because they're not going to be propped up any more. it's not going to hurt them in the long run if the economy is improving. >> but the big concern is europe and china. the big concern is europe and china. the one thing that people are worried about, are they right? can the u.s. economy really go it alone? you still had fed stimulus and

only 2% growth. is the u.s. economy really healthy enough with europe, europe doing so poorly and china slowing. can the u.s. do it on their own? that is the questions that is nagging. >> the point i was going to make, you know, we had near zero interest rates for the last three or four years and the fed, carol, believe it or not, they pumped $3.6 trillion, trillion with a t of money into this economy through these asset purchases. the thing i wonder about, christine, if this is the way the markets reacted to this, you know, warning that maybe in a year or two we may taper back on this. you know, what is wall street going to do when they actually start pulling back in actuality because our fear at "the wall street journal" if you keep up this addiction to cheap money and this is like crack cocaine to all the stock traders. you worry whether the market will crash once you pull all this money back. >> interesting. christine romans, steven moore, thanks for your insight. we appreciate it.

coming up next in "newsroom" the murder trial of george zimmerman has caused a riff in this country, both racially and politically. we'll talk about the implications, when we come back. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's

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interesting since race is a big factor in a trial that is much more than a case of self-defense or murder. thousands of people hit the streets to protest when sanford, florida, police did not initially charge george zimmerman with any crime. protesters argued that was because trayvon martin was black and wearing a hoody. liberals, even president obama, voicing support for trayvon martin. so, let's talk about those larger implications surrounding this trial with hln contributor jason johnson, he's in sanford, florida. professor of political science and chief political correspondent for politic365.com. and reverend eugene rivers. welcome to you both. >> good morning, carol. >> good morning. >> good morning. thanks for being here. jason, i want to start with you. a lot of racial tension there in

sanford. starting with a fight over seating arrangements in the courthouse. a white baptist minister and he's a pretty big minister. 30,000 followers. he wanted to sit behind the martin family and the defense complained. why? >> well, because the defense doesn't want someone with that strong a connection to the white community in sanford to be sitting behind the black family. look, a lot of this case is about symbols. symbolically what does a hoodie mean and what does it mean to have a parishioner sitting behind. each side is working on the opposites and the symbolism. the defense made the first move. >> will that white pastor be sitting behind the martin family or was he forced to move? >> yeah. so, what the judge did is they sort of split up the seats. so, now you're going to have two seats for pastors behind the martin family and two seats for families behind the zimmerman family and they're going to be able to rotate.

kind of odd musical chairs. it's strange. >> reverend, what do you think of that? >> it's, it's part of the absurdity of the theatrical tragedy this has taken on. this now is a media event. it's a happening. you have marches and, ironically, in the middle of all of this theater, black males are killing black males. 93% of the shootings of black males are committed by other black males. black people are 12% of the population and 49% of the homicide victims. it's crazy. >> i know where you're going, reverend, because you've written about this case has everything to do with race and you questioned. would we care if george zimmerman was a black man who killed a black teenager? >> we would not. in fact, we wouldn't know who

trayvon martin was. we wouldn't know who zimmerman was. because if we asked the very basic question. how many black males have been killed in florida since this incident? i venture to say that most of us, in fact, 95% of us could not name one black individual that's been killed since the racial card or the racial dimension of this thing wasn't in play. >> look, we have to talk about the racial dimension because it's certainly there, right, jason? you talked to people who were happy that nearly all white jury jury was seated. why is that? >> oh, definitely. i spoke to members of the orig nalblack community that was absorbed by sanford almost 100 years ago. look, there is real fear here in the community of backlash from the white majority. so, there's a feeling here if zimmerman is found guilty by a mostly white jury, at least

black people won't end up suffering the consequences. i have to disagree with the reverend. i think there is a class element, as well, having to do with section 8 housing in these communities. i think we probably would have heard about this case anyway even if the point is the death of young, black men doesn't usually get national attention. >> this case is also about the gun culture, isn't it, reverend? >> listen. we're talking about alligator wrestling, trailer park folk that love guns. it's the south. so, there's not -- that's not quite news. it's southern, you know, trailer park gun culture. and that's been part of the south since the first scotch irish landed there. >> jason? >> that's not entirely it. look, i walk this neighborhood. this is one of the nicer areas in sanford and what you really have going on here is that that community was affected by the housing boom and now you have people from section eight housing living there and, therefore, residents, homeowners who happen to live in that lake park community started to profile people who they thought

was from section 8 housing. there is a big class element to this. not just about -- >> opening statements set to get under way on monday. should be interesting. i have to stop it here. thank you. a group of mayors want to ban the use of food stamps to buy sodas and other sugary drinks. that's a good question for you. should taxpayers pay for sugary drinks for poor americans? we'll talk about that, next. [ male announcer ] oh, dan, checking out of the doubletree isn't the end.

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18 big city mayors say, yes, it's time we limit what people can buy with food stamps. one of the 18 is the baltimore mayor stephanie rollands-blake. welcome, mayor. >> good to be here with you, carol. >> nice to have you here. you and 17 other mayors sent a letter to lawmakers to consider this idea, why? >> because we see the impact of poverty and poor health. the impact that it has on our communities. in baltimore we have various life expectancy rates in our communities of over 20 years. so, your life expectancy is impacted by your level of poverty and your level of health. i think it's important for government to take reasonable steps to try to address the issue. >> why try to take a freedom, a freedom away from the least powerful among us? >> well, i think you can think of it as a freedom, but i also think it's about a subsidy for

something that we know is unhealthy. we spent over $147 billion a year fighting obesity or dealing with the problem of obesitobesi. that's not something we should subsidize. >> but, let's face it, soda's cheap. it's cheaper to buy than other drinks. they usually cost more. why burden those with less money with this? >> i don't think it's a burden to try to encourage people to be healthy. i want to encourage people in the stores that serve the people in our most vulnerable communities to serve healthier options for people. we can't continue to think that we can do the same thing and have different results. we have life disparities, life expectancy disparities and we have an epidemic of obesity and we have to do something about it. >> why single out soda? why not ban putaltoes chips and candy and other foods.

really, this is about protecting the snap benefits in the federal farm bill. we want to make sure that it's there for families that rely on it for basic nutrition, and that's what snap benefits are for. basic nutrition. i don't think any of those things you mentioned would qualify. >> do you think lawmakers will listen? federal lawmakers will listen? >> i think mayors are very pragmatic and we have to deal with the issues on the ground. we know the epidemic of obesity. it is about health and economics. we want to make sure that we are setting the tone in the nation to provide a road map for a healthier country. >> baltimore mayor, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. abercrombie & fitch should have known what would happen. we'll tell you what the retailer did now to generate a swift and angry response from the fans of

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checking our top stories at 50 minutes past the hour. more attention focused on new england patriots' tight end aaron hernandez as police investigate the shooting death of a massachusetts man. oden lloyd died from a gunshot wound. his body found monday, less than a mile from hernandez's home. the two were reportedly friends. in arizona the wildfire has scorched more than 7,000 acres of the prescott national forest, forced more than 400 people out of homes. dry weather and strong winds are fueling the fire. 10% of the fire has been contained. so far, no homes have been destroyed and no injuries reported. don't mess with t.s., that's what taylor swift fans told abercrombie & fitch. the retailer started selling a

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it's what everyone's talking about this morning. what a game, what a series. the miami heat beat the spurs in game seven of the nba finals to cham their second straight title. here's andy scholes with bleacher report. >> last night's game seven lived up to the hype. when all said and done, lebron and the big three have not one, but two nba titles. now game seven was close for the entire 48 minutes. miami up three in the fourth quarter. lebron kick it over to shane

battier. knocks down the three. battier came out of nowhere, makes 6 of 8 from downtown. that put the heat up six. but the spurs would not go away. tim duncan comes back. he's going to get the and one to go. that cut the lead back to three. then down two with under a minute to go. this play's one tim duncan will remember for a very long time. misses the pointblank shot. that would have tied the game. very next possession, lebron james comes through with the dagger right here. he finishes 37 points, which ties the record for the most pointed in an nba finals game seven victory. heat win, 95-88. lebron finals mvp for the second straight season. >> this team is amazing. and the vision that i had when i decided to come here is all coming true. through adversity, through everything we've been through, weave been able to persevere and to win, you know, back-to-back

champion -- back-to-back championships. it's an unbelievable feeling. in celebration for the heat will continue monday morning with a victory parade through downtown miami. step aside, mia hamm. a new queen of scoring in women's soccer. abby wambach passed hamm as all-time scoring leader. scoring four goals in the first half of the usa win over south korea. she has 160 goals for her career. white sox/twins yesterday, check out this catch. ramirez hits the ball down the line. check out the ball boy, carol. >> yes! >> goes up and gets that one. >> wow! >> this ball boy has baseball in his dna. paul neshek, younger brother of pat neshek. he has a bright future ahead of him. >> better throw that to fans. >> give it to a little kid. >> thanks. love that. next hour of cnn "newsroom."

happening now in the "newsroom," legacy set. >> this is sweet. >> another trophy for king james. >> this team is amazing. >> the fans. the hugs. and a night for the history books. also -- less than a foote football field

apart, two planes just missed crashing in midair over new york city. plus -- valedictorian missing. an american high school kid disappears hiking in ecuador. and -- >> i was like, whoa, did you sigh this guy start walking in front of the car. >> in the video you hear the door locks. >> car theft goes high-tech. a mystery box can unlock your car in 20 seconds. and positioning for a life-saving catch. yep. that was a baby. tragedy averted yet again. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for being with me. a close call over the skies over new york city. faa investigators trying to figure out how a delta flight coming in for a landing at jfk nearly collided with another

plane taking off from laguardia. renay marsh live in washington. walk us through what happened. >> that's right, carol. this near-miss happened in perhaps the busiest airspace in the country. we've pulled in a portion of the audio between the delta 747 and the control tower. what you're about to hear is the control tower telling the pilot the direction and altitude of another plane that's coming his way. listen. >> 172, returning? >> yes, sir. almost at 047 now. >> traffic 12:00, 1400 feet. 1600 feet. >> we've got him on the fish finder here. >> okay. eastbound at 1800 feet coming out. >> turning right to 06 here. >> all right. again, you're hearing that air traffic controller giving him the warning that you're going to see this plane and hear the

pilot acknowledging that he does indeed see the plane and was turning away. carol, the faa saying that they're investigating. here what happe here's what we know so far the. >> reporter: incident happened here at new york's jfk airport. a shuttle america em bray e-170 taking off just as the delta 747 was preparing to land. that 747 then peeled out of its landing in a standard procedure called a missed approach. the two planes then came way too close. the faa will not confirm how close. in a statement it said, the two aircraft were turning away from each other at the point where they lost the required separation. both aircraft landed safely. it is the latest in a string of near-misses across the nation's airports in the past few years. last year in washington, d.c., reagan national airport, three planes barely avoided slamming into one another after a control tower miscommunication.

and a frightening near-multiple collision in denver. just before last thanks giving. >> traffic alert, 1:00, less than two miles at same altitude descend immediately. >> reporter: the passenger plane caught on radar steering directly into the line of several aircrafts. in 2010 a pilot at boston logan airport takes a wrong turn, right into the path of another aircraft. air traffic controller frantically works to avoid a disaster. >> jetblue, hold right there. jetblue hold. hold. >> reporter: thankfully the pilot hears him just in time. crisis averted. >> well, so far no specifics from the faa right now on exactly how close these two planes came to each other. but they say the standard in this sort of situation is the aircraft should be at the very least three miles apart. >> rene marsh live from washington. the search starts up again today in ecuador for a missing

oklahoma teenager who split up from his parents during a hike. august riegger vanished without a trace sunday. the high school valedictorian was supposed meet up with his family at a top of a scenic mountain trail in ecuador but never showed up. 150 volunteers are taking part in the search. nick valencia joins me now. what do they suspect happen? >> a horror story, what you don't want to deal with on a trip abroad. august has been missing since father's day, sunday, on this leisurely hike in ecuador. towards about 100 miles south of the capital on this hike he went missing. he was five minutes ahead of his parents, vanished without a trace. even more bizarre, carol, it happened in the wild-open area. his father told me yesterday, if he did perhaps fall off a steep side of the cliff or a slope or something like that, it would be -- he would be easily spotted, hundreds of volunteers looking for him, at least 150. i asked his father yesterday if

there was any inclination his son may have wandered off by himself and may not want to be found. he said that's completely out of the question. >> no, i mean -- no. just, you know that would -- i don't think so at all. i mean, yeah, i just -- it seems out of the question. the next day we were supposed to leave. we booked a tour to go in the jungle three nights with a guide. it was because of him that we booked that, you know? he's the one who -- i said picked indigenous cultures and so forth. we're supposed to leave on that the next day and, you know, he was real excited about it. he didn't have anything with him. he didn't have any money. he didn't have phone. he didn't have anything. >> august is a good kid. his dad said this was his graduation present member was

valedictorian. a sharp kid. is a sharp kid, i should say. father says that he does not want to believe his son is gone. but all signs pointing to a very ominous conclusion. >> you mentioned steep cliffs. any around? is that a possibility? >> it is a possibility. it's also a possibility initially his parents thought he might be kidnapped. but this is an area that's relatively safe. a tourist center. a tourist destination. it's not a type of place in ecuador where somebody would be kidnapped for ransom. local firefighters that have grown up there told the father this is a safe place. we'll keep looking for your child. his father's holding out hope. is the rest of the family. as the neighbors and family in oklahoma city, a lot of people invested in this kid. >> i hope they find him. speculation continues to swirl around new england patriots' tight end aaron hernandez and his possible involvement in a murder. police have not yet named him as a suspect but he is not in the clear. susan candiotti outside

hernandez's home in massachusetts. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yes, there are a lot of questions at the hour about whether there may be additional search warrants at this house later today or even possibly an arrest warrant for aaron hernandez in connection with the death of ode. lloyd. who is oden lloyd? remember a man who was murdered, his body found a half mile away from the house on monday. and on tuesday, the state police came out here and served search warrants on hernandez's house. they are not, as you said, indicating that aaron hernandez is a suspect at this time but we flow there was a relationship between lloyd and hernandez. according to lloyd's family, they tell me that, for one thing, that he was a friend and they used to, for example, go out to nightclubs together. and in fact, lloyd was dating the sister of aaron hernandez's fiancee. it wouldn't be uncommon for them to be together.

there are other headlines this day, carol. reports that there is video surveillance, shot the night before lloyd was shot to death and video surveillance cameras show lloyd and hernandez together on the very same street where lloyd lives. this report coming to us from the "boston globe." a lot of questions at this hour. aaron hernandez is not here. he was last seen leaving this house yesterday. and everyone followed him. the last he was seen was going to his lawyer's office in boston. that lawyer, carol, not saying anything about this other than issuing a statement the other day indicating that he wasn't going to say anything until this investigative process is complete. >> just to be clear about the surveillance cameras, these weren't surveillance cameras inside hernandez's house, cameras located on the street and they picked up an image of the two men together? >> reporter: in terms of the

surveillance cameras that we're talking about on that street, we don't know exactly where they are positioned, according to the reports. only that they captured images of hernandez and lloyd together the night before lloyd was found shot to death. >> susan candiotti, live for us. we want to bring in cnn legal analyst sunny hostin. welcome. >> thank you. thank you for having me, carol. >> thanks for being here. is it likely that police will enter hernandez's home again and search for more stuff? >> certainly they need a search warrant to do that. and my understanding is they did have a search warrant to enter his home, you know, homes are protected under the law. in order for any law enforcement person to go into your home, they have to go in front of a judge. and the judge has to find there's probable cause that something can be found in there related to possible criminal activity. i will tell you, carol, that the fact that the state police were in his home and the fact that they then must have gotten a

search warrant approved by a judge is a very significant development in a case like this because judges don't take lightly the responsibility of allowing people into someone's home. so i think that there's a lot that can be sort of read and gleaned from that one fact. >> we flow that hernandez was at some kind of party, partying with the victim on friday nighting i believe. we know that the victim was driving a rental car and the rental car was in hernandez's name. we know that police already searched hernandez's home initially and carried out a bun. of stuff. if you're an attorney, this isn't looking good for hernandez. >> well, it certainly looks like he is part of this investigation. you never really want to be part of a criminal investigation. what is somewhat concerning to me is some of the things that susan is -- has discussed, meaning that perhaps his lawyer

provided a smashed up cell phone, perhaps a cleaning crew came in and cleaned his home, perhaps the surveillance cameras in his home were tampered with. that would raise red flags for a prosecutor. that would raise red flags for, you know, the government and law enforcement. certainly you would start looking at obstruction of justice, start looking at tampering with evidence. bottom line is, any lawyer's going to start saying, well, why, if he did those things, what does he have to hide? why would he do that? and so certainly it's looking like he is part of this investigation. >> all right. sunny hostin, thanks so much for your insights this morning. appreciate it. act like you've been there before. the miami heat certainly did. winning their second straight nba title. the heat knocked off the san antonio spurs 95-88 to win game seven of the finals. king james, lebron james, becomes a back-to-back winner of the finals' mvp award after

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do they have a chance of getting it thrown out? >> it's critical. the 911 call, i believe, will be played. so the question is, will the prosecutors have expert testimony to help guide the jury as to who was making those death cries, who believed their life was imminently in danger. this is critical because for self-defense you have to be in reasonable expectation of imminent death or serious bodily harm. those screams have to be george zimmerman if the defense wants to succeed here. one of the issues, is the science acceptable in the community or is it junk science? there were witnesses on both sides but the defense had really renowned worldwide experts, including the senior audio engineer for the fbi that said, number one, you've got to have 16 seconds of screams. we don't have that. two screams are in the background. voice on the 911 call are the ones that you hear. and with the atmospheric conditions, whether the microphone of that phone that was in an apartment was turned away, it's just not reliable.

it doesn't aid and assist the jury. the prosecutor says it is not new and novel procedures. they've been done for a long time. should be a question of fact for the jury. >> what's your gut? what will happen? >> my gut is that the judge is working on it right now as we speak inside the courthouse. at any time we will get the order. as i talk to attorneys around the courthouse, people believe that the judge can't allow this in. it's too speculative. even the experts for the prosecution can't say to a degree of scientific certainty it's trayvon martin's voice. they say speculation is that it could be his voice. she might let it in. she might let one theory in and another theory not because there are several scientific theorys that were used to determine that it possibly is trayvon martin's voice. we should know by the end of today. >> let's talk about the makeup of the jury because i think this surprised many people.

all-women jury five of the women are white. you've covered lots of trials. is this unusual? >> i've never seen an all-female jury but it's only six members here, because it's a noncapital crime. 5 out of 6 are mothers. this is a young boy that died at 17 with one gunshot wound. benjamin crutch, attorney for the family, told me trayvon martin's mother is going to take the stand as well as his father. but remember, there's another mother in that courtroom, too, that's george zimmerman's mother. what i think is interesting, though, is a ruling that just came down. i want to tell you about this before we go. inside the courtroom, they had a short hearing. the defense brought a motion to exclude what they termed inflammatory terms to be brought up, they say in opening statements that could taint the all-female jury, one being profiling. the jge just ruled the prosecutor cannot use the words racial profiling during the

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the 11 million illegal immigrants can get on a 13-year path to u.s. citizenship. >> 11 million people live in the shadows and they live here in de facto amnesty and by god they are being exploited every single day. >> reporter: president obama wants immigration reform for his legacy. many republicans want it to keep the party viable in the future. since hispanic voters are fleeing the gop. only 27% voted for mitt romney in 2012, a precipitous drop since bush won 44% in it 2 004. much of the gop base opposes any path to citizenship. we asked republican marco rubio about conservative criticism. >> i understand why conservatives are upset. we shouldn't do this for politics. politically, this is as much a negative as a positive. people are upset. and i respect it. and i understand it. >> reporter: rubio says over and over to his skeptical gop colleagues, no one can become a legal permanent resident until

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axiron. >> good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you for being with us. we now know it was a heart attack that killed james gandolfini. autopsy results released in past few hours confirm the "sopranos"

star died of natural causes when they collapsed wednesday night. we're also learning hotel staff had to break down the bathroom door to get to him. nischelle turner joins us live. i understand italian authorities spoke a short time ago. >> yeah, they did. gandolfini's friend michael cobalt finished a press conference in rome on behalf of the gandolfini family. he talked about what's next for them. let's listen. >> the autopsy has been conclude, body's been turned over to the funeral director who will be performing whatever he does to em balming the body. in italy it can take up to ten days to get all of the necessary documents and paperwork to repatriate the body. we are looking forward working with the italian government, officials to shorten that process. it looks like they're doing everything on their end, which is wonderful, so we can get his

body back sooner. >> they hope the family, that is, hopes the funeral will be held either thursday or friday in new york but that is dependent on how the process plays out that he was talking. a lot of confusion about just where gandolfini's wife and daughter were when this happened. but we did learn from this press conference that they were traveling with the actor when he died. >> so i would suspect a lot of fans would like to pay tribute once gandolfini's body comes back to the united states. any plans in the works? >> well, you know, it's amazing how so many stars with a new york connection remember gandolfini so fondly and all of the fans that we've heard from as well. like we said we don't know if there's a public memorial that's planned but family does hope that there's a funeral thursday or friday. we have been hearing from his friends as well, we spoke with john travolta last night and he told us that they shared common ground. even before they started working together. this is a great story.

listen to this. >> we did five films together. our fathers knew each other. my dad actually sold tires to him back in the day. and i was apparently his inspiration for getting into show business. and the beautiful thing about jim once he got in show business and became a superstar he never changed his organic realness, you know? he's a beautiful human being that is a friend a friend would want to have. he's glorious. glorious. >> you know, carol, something about that story that i just really like. before they were ever stars, ever in the business, his dad sold tires to him. it's kind of regular, you know? >> yeah. >> embodies what everyone says about james gandolfini. >> just a regular guy. nischelle turner, thanks so much. in the "newsroom," a mystery box that allows thieves to unlock your car door in 20 seconds flat. this is it.

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first i want to see what they look like. second of all, i kind of want to relive the day. >> i never get very specific about being focusing on too much going on in the audience. >> what do you do before the show? >> i get a little anxious, so i keep occupied. at certain point, family new york family, it's like there's a lockdown where then it really gets into a rhythm of preshow. so i try to keep busy. i actually am pretending to learn the guitar and the ukulele. >> just to keep your mind off the coming performance? >> and i'm having fun doing that and i'll 0 do that in the dressing room. >> once you take the stage new york nerves, nothing in. >> no. i can remember being nervous a long, long time ago. but you know, it's been quite a while. >> so you guys have sold out pretty much every show.

some people might say, that's amazing. >> we feel that we have an audience, we're blessed that we have an audience. but you never really, really know like they're going to knock on the door again. ♪ >> we have to talk about some of the drama surrounding the band. >> the musical soap opera, if you will the fact there were these two couples who were living out their lives in front of the public and were, you know, writing songs that had cross dialogues back and forth, the subtext of the "rumors" album is something else. >> i don't know how you could have done that frankly. >> still working on. >> still love between the two? >> yes. we had to compartmentalize. the other unnatural part we never really had the opportunity to spend time apart in order to get the kind of closure that a

normal couple would -- would have. >> there are a lot of fan whose still want to see you guys together. >> and they do, every night. >> i moved on with my life personally. i have three children and a beautiful wife. >> i want to ask you about your new songs because there are four of them, as i understand it. >> yes. >> will there be more? >> we are very much hoping to get stevie to come to the table with some new songs. clearly, you know what we're doing is as fresh and vital as anything we've done in a long time. you know there is still this creative forward motion in the band, you know, so that we're not strictly resting on our laurels. ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow♪ >> yeah. guess what else is in the works? this is from mick fleetwood and lindsey buckingham, thinking of

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a story that has us smiling aren't newsroom. first, grayson clamp, the 3-year-old hadn't heard anything at all because he was born without a cochlear nerve, he was deaf. he became the first child in the united states to receive an auditory brain stem implant, and

he heard sounds for the first time in his life. >> daddy loves you. daddy loves you. daddy -- >> yes. >> can you hear daddy? >> i know, it's priceless. fast forward to this morning. grayson and his parents were guests on cnn's "new day" and grayson, well, he pretty much behaved like any other curious 3-year-old. his parents spoke while grayson took a tour of the studio. >> he's doing fantastic, he really is. it's been several weeks now since his implant was activated. and we've already seen a lot of signs of progress really a lot of signs of progress. >> were you at first careful to not expose him to too much because this would be an auditory assault on his little ears? >> not really. our audiology team at unc hospital is just phenomenal.

as long as he's enjoying the sound that he's getting, then the plan is, give to him. he needs to experience it. he's got to associate sounds with objects or other things. >> what was that moment like? >> just overwhelming. just -- a leaf for me. >> yeah. >> it was a long journey getting there. and i knew it would work but just seeing it work was a huge, just -- it was -- the culmination i've long journey to get there. >> that was his uncle trying to control things in our -- he made a good catch, didn't he? grayson is doing fine. communicates by signing but it won't be long. thanks for joining me today. i'm carol costello. "cnn newsroom" continues right now. >>